{"product_id":"disjunctive-poetics-from-gertrude-stein-and-louis-zukofsky-to-susan-howe-hardback-9780521412681","title":"Disjunctive Poetics; From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Hardback) 9780521412681","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDisjunctive Poetics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrom Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter Quartermain (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521412681, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 June 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.7 x 2.1 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The line of American experimentalist poetry that extends from Gertrude Stein to Susan Howe (with such major figures as Louis Zukofsky, Robert Creely, Robert Duncan, and Guy Davenport along the way) has never had a more lucid, subtle, and discriminating interpreter than Peter Quartermain. In their spirited engagement with seemingly recalcitrant material, these superb essays are sure to become classics of their kind.\"   Marjorie Perloff |x x\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDisjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time. Peter Quartermain suggests that the explosion of non-canonical modern writing is linked to the severe political, social and economic dislocation of non-English-speaking immigrants who, bringing alternative culture with them as they passed through Ellis Island in their hundreds of thousands at the turn of the century, found themselves uprooted from their traditions and dissociated from their cultures. The line of American poetry that runs from Gertrude Stein through Louis Zukofsky and the Objectivists to the Language Writers, Quartermain contends, is not the constructive but the deconstructive aspect, which emphasises the materiality and ambiguity of the linguistic medium and the arbitrariness and openness of the creative process. Providing close reading of Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, Robert Creeley, Basil Bunting, Guy Davenport, Robert Duncan and Susan Howe, the book explains how these writers describe the modern experience in a multicultural world by displacing commonly accepted cultural icons and by loading their language with multiple potential meanings.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'A Narrative of Undermine': Gertrude Stein's Multiplicity\u003cbr\u003e 2. Recurrencies: No. 12 of Louis Zukofsky's Anew\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Instant Entirety': Zukofsky's 'A'\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Not at All Surprised by Science': Louis Zukofsky's First Half of 'A' - 9\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Actual Word Stuff, Not Thoughts for Thoughts': Williams and Zukofsky\u003cbr\u003e 6. 'Only Is Oreder Othered. Nought Is Nulled': Finnegans Wake and Middle and Late Zukofsky\u003cbr\u003e 7. 'To Make Glad the Heart of Man': Bunting, Pound and Whitman\u003cbr\u003e 8. Six Plaints and a Lament for Basil Bunting\u003cbr\u003e 9. Exploring the Mere: A Note on Charles Reznikoff's Shorter Poems\u003cbr\u003e 10. Robert Creeley What Counts\u003cbr\u003e 11. 'Go Contrary, Go Sing': Robert Duncan 1919–1988\u003cbr\u003e 12. Writing as Assemblage: Guy Davenport\u003cbr\u003e 13. And The Without: An Interpretive Essay on Susan Howe\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007250682136,"sku":"9780521412681","price":94.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521412681i_de4e81f0-d88c-4533-9bdd-d9311c032d07.jpg?v=1691381314","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/disjunctive-poetics-from-gertrude-stein-and-louis-zukofsky-to-susan-howe-hardback-9780521412681","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}